Is Footing the Peacekeeping Bill Enough?
Though its population is 60 times smaller, Finland sends more peacekeeping troops than the United States. Photo | Reuters, Afolabi...
Europe
Who is Britain’s new Prime Minister?
Theresa May and husband Philip outside 10 Downing Street. Image courtesy of Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images. Before Theresa May entered 10...
Two years after Maidan, has Ukraine forgotten about LGBT reform?
he 2014 Equality Festival in Kiev. Picture by EsWerUA. The Equality Festival, a two-day celebration to promote tolerance and equality...
Russia’s exit from Syria: Mission unaccomplished?
Picture by Maxim Shemetov | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on March 14 that he would begin to remove...
Russia’s NGO law leaves environmental activists in troubled waters
Lake Baikal. Picture by Bailey Wolff Jennie Sutton had nearly given up hope. Would Baikal Ecological Wave, the environmental nonprofit...
Looking back in anger: The dangers of Ukraine’s decommunization laws
The monument to Lenin in Zaporizhia, Ukraine. Picture by Nataliya Shestakova Ukrainian workers began in mid-March the process of dismantling...
Should they stay or should they go: Brits clash over Brexit
Picture by Dylan Martinez | Reuters On June 23, Britons will have to take a stand on the United Kingdom’s...
Sharing is caring: Why America needs a single-payer healthcare system
Pictures of Money | Flickr Americans think that a simple doctor’s visit in Britain means waiting in a Soviet-style bread...
Paris Attacks: A new era in French politics?
A memorial outside the Carillon restaurant in Paris on Sunday, one of the sites of the attacks on Friday. Picture...
Catalan secessionism wins the election—but not in votes
People marching for independence showing secessionist flags in Barcelona. Picture by SantiMB.Photos | Flickr Pro-independence parties in Catalonia won the...